Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  IC 1340  ·  NGC 6992  ·  NGC 6995  ·  Veil nebula
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Eastern Veil Nebula, James R Potts
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Eastern Veil Nebula

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Eastern Veil Nebula, James R Potts
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Eastern Veil Nebula

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Here is my first attempt at the Eastern Veil Nebula and this came out much better than it should have as I was must have left my brain in the house. But I did learn something. Did anyone know the power connection on a ASI 294 pro is for the cooler and fan only? I had always figured if the power wasn't connected the camera wouldn't work, WRONG!!!!! When I added my new Pegasus power box, I somehow didn't connect the power cable to the ASIAir Pro. I was over half way through my imaging train last night and noticed my camera temp was not where it was supposed to be and the power bar was at 100%, so I turned my cooler off, so this is an uncooled image. This morning I was researching why the cooler might not work and one suggestion was to try another cable, so obviously that is when I discovered there was no connected power cable. I did go ahead and try to do flats and dark flats without cooling and when I went to stack in APP, I had the most bizarre image. I tried several different times with different settings and still the processed image was unusable. Finally I just did a stack with the Lights (33 5 minute exposures) and just the darks and here is the resulting non-cooled, no flats image.

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